Re: [PATCH] Add git-relink-script to fix up missing hardlinks

[Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 03:44:15PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >I am a bit puzzled, though, why Jeff was the original requestor
> >for this feature --- I thought he handles 50 heads in one
> >repository which means there is no multiple repositories to
> >relink across.
> 
> Sure there are.  Just watching my submissions on the mailing list, you 
> can see ones mentioned such as "misc-2.6", "libata-dev", "netdev-2.6", etc.:
> 
> [jgarzik@pretzel repo]$ ls -FC
>  config-2.4      ethtool/    libata-dev/  netdev-2.6/     sparse/
>  config-2.6      git/        linux-2.6/   old-SCM/
>  config-2.6-uml  git-tools/  misc-2.6/    scsi-misc-2.6/

I actually have been using subdirectories in refs/heads with quite a bit
of success. All of the core tools have no problem with them and only
gitweb and gitk need some small changes to show them correctly.

The subdirectories in refs/heads are user specific in my case, this end
up being pretty useful when combined with Coda's directory ACLs, each
user can maintain their own branches, but cannot modify anyone elses.
All developers have insert, read and lookup rights on the main objects
repository, they can add new objects, but not remove or overwrite any
existing ones.

My branch names end up looking something like 'jaharkes/wdonly',
'awolbach/expand', etc. and it works like a charm.

Jan